This might run on a little long, but I'm going to try to explain
everything I've tried up to this point.
I've been running Debian on my laptop for about 8 years now (although
the actual laptop has changed several times since then, I've copied the
hard drive image each time to the next
John Miller wrote:
Nate Duehr wrote:
Bob wrote:
... what I'm looking for is a drivebay / backplane
manufacturer that has 5, 4, 3 and 1 slot internal bays available
that use the *same* tray / housing / caddie.
I've got about 4-5 rackmount servers using the Addonics 3-drive
Paul Johnson wrote:
Voting with your money is important when it comes to
compatability on Linux.
I'd be all for getting something other than a Dell, but they were the
only ones I could find that offered a laptop with a screen resolution
meeting or exceeding 1600x1200. Does anybody know of
Michele Della Marina wrote:
Can someone suggest me a SMS Gateway service?
Do you mean for sending text messages to people's phones via email, or
something else?
- Joe
smime.p7s
Description: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
Michele Della Marina wrote:
yes, this is my intent... using a PBX with GSM support and cutting the
CTI application (expensive and microsoft systems dipendent :(
.. is possible?
Well, in the US, each mobile phone provider has their own email-to-SMS
gateway (http://www.notepage.net/smtp.htm), and
So, I had an idea of *something* I could do to try to help fix this
Sobig virus problem.
Since the sender address is certainly spoofed, I figure the only way to
track down the source is from the Received lines in the mail header.
I figured that, if their machine is poorly-managed enough for
Simple situation
At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP
with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key.
They all have different SSID's.
What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian
laptop so that, when I boot the
Simple situation
At work, it's an open WiFi lan without encryption. At home, I have WEP
with a certain key. At my girlfriend's, it's WEP with a different key.
They all have different SSID's.
What I would like, of course, is to be able to configure my Debian
laptop so that, when I boot the
Craig Tinson wrote:
Can anyone come up with a theory on how to convert an mp3 into a
number?
Well, whatever you're going to use it for, it has probably already been
done, or it's not going to work out like you hope. Let me touch on all
of the possible things I can think of:
First, either you
Alan Connor wrote:
First-of-all, if you think this thread doesn't belong on the list, then
why did you respond to it?
Ah yes... the ol' Ad Hominem argument falacy
Gee officer... I was speeding? Well, if you pulled me over, then you
must have been speeding, too. So YOU'RE under
Is there a reason why we haven't seen ALSA modules for kernel 2.4.20,
yet?
I've got my laptop set to boot to either 2.4.19 or 2.4.20 because 2.4.19
has ALSA modules for my soundcard but no support for my USB midi
interface. Conversely, 2.4.20 now has the usb-midi.o driver built-in,
but I can't
From: Ed Cogburn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Are you also compiling your own kernel?
No. In the past, I've been able to just compile (and use) many modules
simply by providing them with the kernel-headers (or, in rare cases, the
kernel-source).
Compiling the kernel myself has always seemed to yield a
Okay... I *had* horde2/imp3 working about a few
weeks ago.
Now, it doesn't work. This probably happened after
one of my apt-get update/upgrade runs. Normally, when stuff breaks after an
upgrade, I can fix it myself, but this has me stumped.
When I go to http://myservername/horde2, I get
I've been having a problem with my Debian system
automatically bringing up my eth0 interface even though I don't have it marked
as "auto" in /etc/network/interfaces. Until now, I had figured that it was due
to a bug in ifup that brought up all auto *and* all dhcp'd interfaces, but now
I've
Most likely it is not ifup, but some DHCP client that is being
started. When debian boots, it runs 'ifup -a' (see
/etc/init.d/networking) to bring up things listed as auto.
Actually, this is happening before /etc/rcS.d/S39ifupdown gets run. In
fact, I've pretty much traced it down to
I've got a whole bunch of machines that maintain at
school and home and I've also got a laptop. Sometimes, there will be some
software that I want to install on many/most of them and, due to licensing
restrictions, they don't exist on the normal Debian mirrors. Two examples of
this are the
dpkg-scanpackages ./ /dev/null Packages
gzip Packages
you could set up a cronjob to make a new Packages.gz file each night
is that what you were asking?
Um... Yeah! It even generates the Size and MD5sum fields. Snazzy. Thanks
Jason and Stephen.
Oh, and you can save a step with:
Okay, I'm stumped.
I used to go directly to ftp.debian.orgfor my packages. However, I
started feeling guilty about hammering the central servers, so I started using
mirrors.
The problem with that was that many of the mirrors
would either be a few days out-of-sync with the central servers
I've got a built-in ethernet jack on my laptop. Being a laptop... this jack
is often not plugged into anything (aka: I don't want it coming up
automatically on boot). However, being a laptop, when it *is* plugged in, it
gets plugged in at a variety of places (aka: I need DHCP).
The problem is
Some of my coworkers want to dabble in grid
computing, so they got themselves about 7 old PC's and they wanted to set them
up.
I put Debian on all of them, but I wanted to be
able to keep them up-to-date without having all 7 hit the package servers. Since
they are all configured the same,
Okay folks today is "cleanin' out my closet"
day as far as Debian problems goes, so you'll probably see a handfull of
questions from me today. Try to be patient and gentle.
First off, I've been using Debian for quite some
time 4 or 5 years now, I guess. Back then, you had to set
I had a hard drive go wiggy on me
yesterday.
It didn't crash completely... it merely started
giving read errors and causing all kinds of filesystem wierdness (like things in
/usr/bin that you can't run because they're "not found", but you can't install a
replacement because "file exists").
I'm having trouble sorting this out.
I've got a laptop running Debian. Depending on whether I'm home or at
work, I'll have either a wireless network card (Lucent Orinocco) or a
wired network card (Xircom RealPort) in the unit. For convenience, I
hardly ever shut the machine down... I just have
This isn't really a debian question as much as a Solaris question, but I'm
not sure the Solaris people would understand what I'm trying to describe.
Does anyone know of a tool like 'dselect' (or even 'dpkg') that I could use
on a Solaris box for adding/removing packages? It seems unlikely that
I want apt to be able to get to the goodies
at:
http://www.sandalwood.net/~terubou/linux/deb/
What do I put in sources.list?
- Joe
I'm trying to run X on my Dell Inspiron 3700 with
Debian. I've got X running, but it hangs when I try to do a suspend. All of the
howto's I've read say that, in order for suspend to work, I need to be using the
FBdev xserver... which requires that I start with framebuffers turned on with
does anybody know how it would be possible to calculate the difference
between two dates with a shell or awk script, for example from 15:30:23
to 17:29:01?
Those aren't dates. Those are times, but the following should work either
way:
try: date -d 15:30:23 +%s
This will give you the number
Foolish me: I'd been happily running ssh 1:2.2.0p1 on my Potato
system, and then I upgraded to ssh 1:2.2.0p1-1.1. (I got both of
those versions from unstable.) Well, that newer version doesn't
work on potato, because it requires a newer libc. I don't care to
upgrade libc, and ssh is now
I'm having a hell of a time getting jserv 1.1.2-1
to work on Apache 1.3.12-2.1.
I keep getting "Can't find class
org.apache.jserv.JServ". However, the /usr/share/java/ApacheJServ.jar *is*
listed on a wrapper.classpath line in /etc/jserv/jserv.properties.
When I turn on verbose mode, I see
I tried to install a package using apt-get
yesterday. It complained about dependencies for some stuff. It suggested that I
use "apt-get -f install {packagename}".
So I did
It downloaded a bundle of packages, whizzed through
the configurations for them in no time at all.
Everything
On Tue, 17 Oct 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
and a couple of others. In other words, upon reboot, there was no
network connectivity and no way to GET network connectivity without
bringing in netbase and it's dependencies via floppy disk.
So uh, why did you let it?
I presume this would have
Just out of curiosity; what did you install that conflicted with netbase
and
friends?
I was upgrading mysql-server, of all things. Granted, this was on a system
that hadn't been refreshed in about 3 months or so, so there were about 100
packages that dselect wanted to bring up-to-date.
Some time ago,
I asked about any utility that could take a list of machinesand find the one
that's closest, so that I could find the best mirror topoint dselect to.
Someone responded that I should try "netselect", which didhelp a lot.
However, netselect has a couple of shortcomings: o It
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000, Joe Emenaker wrote:
o It only tests ping times, not actual transfer rates of data
Right, because ping times are a good first step. If the box pings really
slowly, the odds are the transfer rate will be greatly affected.
I don't care if the lines you and the mirror
Some time ago, I asked about any utility that could
take a list of machinesand find the one that's closest, so that I could find
the best mirror topoint dselect to. Someone responded that I should try
"netselect", which didhelp a lot. However, netselect has a couple of
shortcomings: o It
Stuff sent to the mailing list shows up on
linux.debian.user.
My question is, does stuff posted to
linux.debian.user go to the mailing list? In fact, I tried posting to the
newsgroup and it didn't even show up on the newsgroup itself? Does the newsgroup
support posting?
- Joe
Question: How do you get the dhcp client on my firewall computer to grab
the
cable modem address and not an address from my internal dhcp?
If you are going to have two have two ethernet cards in your machine, this
is fairly easy and a number of responses have already touched on how to have
JavaSoft apparently released the Linux version of the JDK 1.2.
Anyone know if anyone is packaging it already?
- Joe
I assume JavaSoft = Sun Microsystems? If so, the JDK 1.2.2 has been
out for at least a month or two.
Yeah... that's what it kinda looks like. I guess the Enterprise Edition just
came out yesterday. I had been watching the BlackDown site, since it was my
understanding that they were the people
I'm interested in implementing some form of spam and e-mail virus filtering
at the daemon.
I know that there are blacklists that you can have Exim and other MTA's use
in order to cut down on spam. However, it would be nice if there were some
way to stop *new* spam from places that aren't on the
I'm trying to get libapache-mod-ssl working.
When I try to connect via https to the server, Netscape tells me that
there's some strange network error or that the server is misconfigured
basically, that the response came back garbled. So, I found this on
DejaNews:
6.1.3) I downloaded a
Aka... why is my system so well hung? :)
Every now and then, I'll have a Debian box that starts having fits of hard
system hangs. Sometimes, it goes away when I turn off a daemon. Other times,
it goes away when I put the hard drives in an entirely different computer.
Currently, I'm having this
With that in mind, does anyone have any personal experience concerning
what
the problem usually is in these cases? Motherboard? RAM? Has it ever
helped
anyone to *under*clock the CPU?
I was having some problems like this last week and it turned out that I
had set some resource limits for
I've got a machine that's 12800 seconds behind the rest of the world. I'd
like to fix that.
With normal execution of the daemon, it exits immediately after writing to
the logs something to the effect of clock over 1000s off... set clock
manually
However, in this case, I'm more in need of a
Forgive me if this is a faq
It seems like masquerading is not turned on in the stock kernel-image
packages. Is this true or am I forgetting to load a module somewhere? If
it's true, does anybody know why that decision was made?
- Joe
I recently upgraded my Linux box that connects my house to the net. and
I also upgraded the machine on the other end of the PPP connection, too (the
one on the internet side).
Something really wierd occurs, though. After a few minutes of heavy usage,
the throughput will drop to almost zero.
The exim.org site says that it supports CRAM-MD5 and PLAINTEXT
authentication for SMTP *if* it's called for in the Makefile.
So, the question becomes: is it compiled in on the distributed Exim?
- Joe
Joe Emenaker wrote:
All in all, this usually takes about 5 minutes of my attention per
machine
per update. Also, since I always want my machines on the bleeding edge,
I
always want the latest of whatever's available. If I just pointed
dselect
and apt to woody instead of unstable
I have this dilemma every time I configure a new Debian box and am setting
up which mirror to point dselect and apt to.
I want to find the sites that have fewer hops and lower ping times than the
rest so that I can use the sites that are closer (not geographically,
but as far as net traffic
Why not just point apt at the *name* of the release that you want?
deb http://http.us.debian.org/debian potato main contrib non-free
deb http://non-us.debian.org/debian-non-US potato/non-US main contrib
non-free
This way you don't have to worry about it.
Well, you see, my sysadmin style is
Shall I assume you don't really care. ;-)
I care so much that using a deprecated back-door hack just won't do. I need
some configurablilty that isn't going to just disappear out of the blue,
forcing me to retrograde back to a previous version like I've just had to do
when the default root moved
what makes IMAP better for you then POP3 ?
Try this:
Set up two machines (for a completely implausible scenario, let's say that
the two machines are at your work and at your house) to read from the same
POP server.
Now, you have two options when you configure your mail program: leave
messages
I'm using the regular imap daemon. When I move files from my inbox to
another folder with Outlook Express, the messages seem to get marked as
deleted. However, when I click purge, they don't delete. I have to
explicitly UNdelete them and then delete them again before they actually
purge from my
When the last Debian release was coming up, I had deselect downloading from
stable, frozen, and unstable. Then, some time ago, 'frozen' went away. This
caused dselect to complain a lot when updating package lists. So, I just
finished taking the 'frozen' parts out of all of my
Although a number of people have supported my decision to make $HOME/mail
the mailbox root for the UW imap server I maintain, I think it will be for
the best overall if I make it $HOME again.
Argh! Okay. Does anybody want to suggest any other imap daemons that allow
me to set the mailroot to
I've got a system running on a 13GB drive on /dev/hda. I've got an idential
model of drive on /dev/hdb.
The plan is to use something like dump/restore to keep /dev/hdb as a pretty
good mirror of /dev/hda. (By pretty good, I mean... it's okay if I lose
some log entries, etc I just want to be
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes
I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with
the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make
this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the
/etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's
Probably a FAQ... but, here goes
I've noticed that the JDK 1.1 description claims that it can co-exist with
the older JDK 1.0. However, I've not been able to figure out how to make
this work. Whichever one gets installed last seems to change the
/etc/alternatives to it's liking and that's
Sorry about the duplicate... I'm still trying to figure out why Outlook
Express does that sometimes
For a long time, I've had a policy of updating my servers from stable *and*
unstable because I wanted the newly packaged stuff but also, more
importantly, because I wanted bug fixes for security holes asap... without
having to wait for the next official release of Debian.
Well, it seems that bug
I started getting this from several binaries (mysqld, for one) immediately
after upgrading to the latest packages in 'unstable' (it had been about a
month since my last update).
Anybody know:
1) what's causing this.
2) what I can do in the short-term to fix it
3) when it will be fixed in the
Well, I upgraded to the latest packages in 'unstable' and it broke mySQL and
a few other goodies. Since I could no longer get the libraries that I had
just *replaced* (the ones that were in 'unstable' about a month ago), I
decided to try installing the libc and ldso in 'stable'
bad idea.
It
I've got two drives in a machine. One has Win95 on it, the other has WinNT
and Linux. Using LILO, I can boot Linux and whichever Windows OS is on the
first hard drive. I am unable, however, to boot the one on the second drive,
hdb.
My lilo.conf looks like:
root=/dev/hda
image=/dev/vmlinuz
I was wondering if there is a more friendly utility than dselect out there.
I realize that, since it has to fit on the install floppies, dselect has to
remain pretty lean. I also know that there's been a lot of talk about
graphical config tools... but they seem to have been just that: *config*
i've recently reinstalled my debian system and i am now
getting the following error message:
Jan 12 09:00:15 random amd[1162]: setmntent(/etc/mtab, r+): Too many
open files
any ideas, or pointers to the fm are welcomed.
The kernel's out of file handles. Go to /proc/sys/kernel and look at
On Wed, Dec 16, 1998 at 01:19:41PM -0800, Ian Eure wrote:
Ok. Let's say I have a linux box on an ethernet. It's ip is
192.168.111.55. The router on the ethernet is 192.168.111.1. Let's say I
have a web server on 192.168.111.55, accessible from outside my local
network.
I'm assuming that you
I finally worked out how to pon to specific providers using
pon provider name
How do I find out what my connection speed is?
Well, for *starters*, you need to make sure that your modem is reporting the
DCE speed (the speed it's talking to the other modem at) and not the DTE
speed (the speed
Questions:
1. How should I redirect user's mails:
For example I want mail to
[EMAIL PROTECTED] to be redirected to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
because there are actually no user on linuxbox.domainname
Put:
smartuser:
driver=smartuser;
new_user=[EMAIL PROTECTED]
in your
Hello All,
I just can't figure out how to get cgi's to work in the home
directories. The log shows suEXEC is running and cgis work from
/var/www/cgi-bin. In the home directory I have
/home/user/public_html/cgi-bin.
I'm using apache for the server. I've looked through the manuals and tried
the
when I tried to remove KDE via dselect,
it didn't remove a bunch of directories because they weren't empty
or something)
I make a motion that dpkg should maintain a log of all of the orphan
directories that it leaves behind because they're not empty so that we can
go in later and clean
Autoppp works and I get a
succesful PAP login. After that though, the home-client machine and
the work-server don't seem to communicate the local and remote
addresses properly - resulting in the home machine giving up saying
that it Could not determine local IP address and hangs up ppp with
No
I'm guessing that reboot != shutdown -r now. Try running:
sudo shutdown -r now
Uh. no. Last time I checked, it wasn't even close.
The story I've always heard is that you shouldn't run halt or reboot
yourself. Those are run by shutdown as the last thing it does. shutdown
unmounts all of
are there any other tools that can do it?
The only thing I could find is to look in /var/samba/browse.dat and then use
nmblookup on each one. Problem is, browse.dat doesn't hold all of the
machines. What you need is a way to list all of the machines in a domain...
but I couldn't figure out how to
Joe (and anyone else interested),
Very nice idea, and I have an idea to make it even nicer: There's
a package called 'netselect' which describes itself thusly:
Cute. However, I'd be heasitant to make dselect depend upon yet another
package. Keep in mind that dselect has to fit on the install
I haven't looked at a recent version of the Best supplied software, but
bpowerd is better in that it is a proper daemon and uses the syslog
correctly. Also, it communicates with sysvinit thru a direct pipe
(/dev/initctl) rather than using messy (and standards non-compliant)
status files in
On Thu, 10 Dec 1998, Mitch Blevins wrote:
Of course you can change these scripts to do anything you want. If you
want to tweak the polling timing, you must recompile from source.
However, I think the default scripts/values are reasonable and will suit
most user's needs. I've had momentary
It sure would be great (and it sure would take some load off of
ftp.debian.org) if dselect could ftp a list of mirrors and then let us
select one.
I like using the mirrors because they're faster and also because I feel good
knowing I'm helping to lighten the load on Mother (ftp.debian.org).
Not sure what the original post is, but you might want to check the MB
compatibility HOWTO. I had a SuperMicro P5MMA98 board and I found out that
it had a BIOS glitch that pissed Linux off. I was able to download a flash
upgrade and then Linux installed perfectly.
- Joe
BEGIN:VCARD
VERSION:2.1
What I need is a lists of reasons, logical supportable reasons, that I
could
use to convice a change of standardization. Quite literally, this will
decide
what the next 50-100 systems will look like. DO they run Redhat or
Debian...
How's this one: We recently had a rash of intrusions on
From: Richard Sevenich [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: debian-user@lists.debian.org debian-user@lists.debian.org;
[EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: QUantifiable reasons to use debian instead of redhat...?
To be somewhat dispassionate, you might send a similar query to a RedHat
list.
I got it to work successfully using ipautofw. I follow the instructions
on winroute site (www.winroute.com). Here is what I did:
[ snip ]
If you wish to run several ICQ clients in your LAN (and these clients
need to accept calls from other ICQ users), you have to create an entry
in the mapped
Here's something someone posted a few days ago
--
Folks,
If you are getting the error
/usr/lib/libstdc++-libc6.0-1.so.2: undefined symbol: __register_frame_info
after upgrading to slink, please go through the mail below. Mitch's
solution worked for me.
... I suggest
that a fourth stage be created between unstable and frozen. I would call
this broken.
[ snip ]
Witness a post of mine on Monday: Upgraded to unstable, now unstable ;-)
Well, it has always caused a little confusion (for me and the others that I
have introduced to Debian) that
Maybe they could get a question like do you want to get rid of YYY
too? It was installed only for supporting XXX but may be useful
on its own.
Uh... I think I mentioned this a few days ago. So... I guess my vote would
be... yes. I'm all for it.
I guess the thing I was mostly suggesting was a
Programs that are useful by itself could install with a counter that's
already 1 higher. For example: if all the packages that depend on Xterm are
removed, the counter of Xterm is still not zero. So it would not be
deleted.
Thinking a bit longer: in this way almost no programs reach zero.
One of the faculty at our university runs RedHat (blech!). He hasn't kept
the packages up to date and, subsequently, has suffered an intrusion. I was
called in as the recovery team.
I discovered that RedHat's rpm package manager has a really cute feature. If
you run rpm --verify -a, it will
Well, Mitch did a darn good job of explaining all of this, but I'll still
throw in my two cents...
Question 1. Is the calculation: number of possible users = permanent
speed div users connection speed correct ? (ie. 512K / 33.6K = 15.238...
users)
Like Mitch said, this assumes that everyone's
How can I re-configure my network after installing linux?
Well, assuming you're talking about changing the IP address... you need to
change a couple of files:
/etc/init.d/network - Shell script that sets up your ethernet interface.
/etc/hosts - file that holds the IP's of well-known hosts...
One problem with auto-deinstallation of support packages is that
you may have other packages that also use the same support package.
Seeing how this problem is almost identical to the problem of memory
allocation in a language like C or C++ (ie, memory-leaks vs.
dangling-pointers), perhaps we
I call my net localnet and if I fill in that as the domain in win98 it
tries to look up LOCALNET.localnet ?? if I dont have any domain it only
lloks for LOCALNET go figure :(
It sounds like you might have localnet defined in two places, as your
domain, and also in your domain suffix search
I've got a little linux box configured as a dial-on-demand masquerading
router for the other machines in my house. It works great. when using a
normal modem.
I got ISDN, and I've been able to use it without any problems when I use it
directly from my Windows98 machine.
However, when I try
It seemed to happen when I upgraded the smail package... probably to
.101
smail no longer delivers mail immediately. It queues it up in
/var/spool/smail/input until runq is run.
I've tried setting delivery_mode=foreground and delivery_mode=background
in /etc/smail/config and I've also
Okay, here's the deal: I've got perl, mysql, perl-dbi, and mysql-dbd all
loaded. The perl-dbi stuff is very dependent upon the build of perl (to the
point where I suspect that a rebuild of perl will break DBI unless it, too,
is rebuilt in the context of the new perl binary). The same seems to
I was upgrading some packages last night and I broke two things, DBI and
smail. I didn't find out about the mail one until the next morning (and boy,
were the clients pissed...).
So, I got to thinking. Suppose we made a directory called, say,
/usr/lib/healthcheck or something. Package
I just tried to updrade my system from the stable and unstable
directories. It downloaded a whole mess of things (about half of them
seemed to be libraries). Anyway, it began installing them and, starting
with about the third or fourth package, it starts seg-faulting in all of
the pre-inst
On Tue, 29 Jul 1997, Brandon Mitchell wrote:
[snip]
when it tries to run a shell script. At this point, I'd like to motion
that the Debian policy be changed so that the shell pointed to by /bin/sh
be compiled with *static* libraries?). If I go to the (S)elect screen, I
[snip]
Well, I
I want to compile the kernel-29 or kernel-30 source and I want to be able
to use make menuconfig. The problem is:
kernel-source-2.0.29 suggests ncurses-dev (for menuconfig)
kernel-source-2.0.29 recommends gcc
ncurses-dev depends on libc5-dev
gcc conflicts with libc5-dev
Now, I suppose
Furthermore, saying its NOT is the documentation is just totatlly
wrong! If you chose NOT to install the HOWTO'S or INFO,
And how would I go about doing that? I've got 5 install disks and a machine
with a modem that can only get to the net via PPP. I'd install the HOWTO's
with dselect but,
It's really not so damn difficult to be honest, but the first time or two
it might seem daunting.
Why not try to make it less daunting? Is it supposed to be some sort of a
rite of passage?
Exactly! I keep seeing posts from people who say All I did was
'cat /usr/bin/pon' and went and
Okay... for those who offered to look at my scripts and such, here's
everything you'd ever need to know about what's going on, I hope.
I put a lot of time into organizing the information into something easy to
read, so, even though it's long, I'd appreciate it if you'd take the time
to give it a
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